“We were all rooting for you, but none of us thought you were actually going to make it.” That’s a quote from my wife about how people from my hometown reacted to me becoming a Navy SEAL. We weren’t married when she felt that way, and this was revealed to me many...
I once saw a guy being interviewed asked the question: “What is it that makes you guys so good? Smiling, he replied, “It’s not that we’re that good, it’s that everyone else sucks.” I smiled too but wasn’t sure why and began reflecting on what it meant to me. As...
A colleague once asked me, “how did you manage the fear of death?” The answer is fairly simple. Life has pain and ends with death. The question is, what are you going to do about it? You see the secret is to stare that reality right in the face and smile. Because...
Of the 135 men that started, we had dwindled to just under 40. At the current moment, it was hard to tell exactly how many people were left in the chaos that was upon us. Yesterday afternoon we had started hellweek. Hellweek is often regarded as the most difficult...
The Night We Cheated Death with Mental Toughness and Great Teammates An undisclosed distance out to sea, a thunderstorm is brewing with sheet lightening starting to streak through the clouds. Peering through the green glow of my night vision goggles, I watch the...
Failure. Otherwise known as the hardest piece of adversity. Most of us have been told “it’s a part of the process.” Great!…but what does that mean? The process should be a constant evolution of becoming better. Everyone has failed. Everyone will again, or at least...
